Candlestick Press
Biographies
Here you can find out more about the huge range of poets we feature in our pamphlets and the artists whose work appears on our beautiful covers.
We’ve now published poems by almost 700 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Benjamin Zephaniah. Although our emphasis is on British poetry, you’ll also find Irish, American and Australian writers.
We hope these pages will encourage you to explore further the work of a poet you’ve enjoyed in one of our pamphlets.
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Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Raine CBE (1908 – 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, and a founder member of the Temenos Academy. Her poetry won numerous awards and honours, including the Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize from the American Poetry Society. She published more than eleven volumes of poetry, as well as works of literary criticism and an autobiography. In 1992 she was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
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Vinode Ramgopal
Vinode Ramgopal has written hundreds of poems and is in the process of publishing two collections: Beyond a Millenium and Til the Simple Moods are Torn. He was educated at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Merton College, Oxford. He lives in the New York City area of the US and works in the financial sector.
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Julia Rawlinson
Julia Rawlinson grew up in London and graduated from Southampton University with a degree in geography. She is the author of Fletcher and the Falling Leaves and Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms, illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.
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Angela Readman
Angela Readman is a British poet and short story writer. Her most recent collection Bunny Girls was published by Nine Arches Press in 2022. Her poems have won various awards including the Charles Causley Prize and her short stories have won the Costa Short Story Award.
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Peter Reddick
Peter Reddick (1924 – 2010) was an artist and engraver who focused increasingly on engraving after polio made it difficult for him to paint. He studied at The Slade and at the London School of Printing. One of his most important projects was creating engravings to illustrate all 18 of Thomas Hardy’s novels.
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Yvonne Reddick
Yvonne Reddick is a poet and researcher. Her pamphlet Translating Mountains (Seren, 2017) was selected by the TLS as a favourite pamphlet of the year. She has been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and her book Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet is published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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